Three hundred years after the fall of society, the last fragments of civilization are clinging to life, living in the ruins of the ancient cities in nearly-medieval conditions. Technology has been reduced to legend, monsters roam the forests, and fear reigns supreme. But that is just the beginning...

The wind-borne spores are spreading, disfiguring men and twisting their minds, turning them into creatures that threaten to destroy the townships. Among the townsfolk, political and the religious, dissension is spreading.

Through it all, a mother must protect her son...

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"This book is the perfect example of why I love the fantasy/science fiction genre." - Cindy S., Goodreads Reviewer

"I'm Hooked" - Angela, Goodreads Reviewer

"It's an awesome novel (and I mean that in a Carl Sagan way)that includes all the best explorations of human psychology: a mother's drive to protect her son, the selfless sacrifice of a man to protect his community, intellectual curiosity that leads to relevant conclusions, man's inhumanity to other men and especially women, and other facets of greed, nobility, and adventure." - Amazon Reviewer Elfy

"I just adore post-apocalyptic/dystopian stories and this had pretty much everything I love about them." - Peta, Goodreads Reviewer

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To the authors: So tired of the bait and switch. This is not a book. This is the first portion of a book. No aspect of the story is completed. There is no closure of any sort to any aspect of the plot. I realize that the success of Wool has caused many authors to decided that chopping their book up into umpteen parts, giving the first part away free and then charging book-prices for the successive parts makes good business sense, and they are probably right. However, I will not subsidize this blatant bait and switch. If you want to take this approach and make clear what you are really doing in your description of book one, I'm all for it; it means you believe in your writing enough that you believe people will be willing to pony up for the rest once they get a decent taste.

In this case the book is good enough that I might have ponied up had you been up front with me, not great, but good enough to read if the total for the whole thing was in the typical e-book price range (i.e. if it was around 6.99 or less for all 5 parts). However this unhappy customer will not be back, I'd rather not know what happens than support your deceptive practices.

I am completely fed up with authors forcing the story arc and pacing in order to create more "volumes" of the same story. It smacks of mercenary more than literary motivation.There is absolutely no reason given why the society reverts to Middle Ages in technology, society and religion post apocalypse. The authors offer no plausible explanation and don't even hint that the reasons will emerge in subsequent parts of the series.There seems to be several different groups living simultaneously but it's hard to tell who they are, what makes them different or much about them. "Infected" seem to be split between goodies and baddies but I can't work out how or why from the text.Next time, set the scene, allow the main characters to develop at a natural pace, give the reader a chance to understand the drivers of the story and some clarity of where you are going.

Not at all what I would call a post apocalyptic story, even though it supposedly takes place 300 years after such event. I thought the story was slow, and spent far too much time on telling us about the execution of certain surviving humans, and then after struggling through that part of the story, it kept reminding me of it about every 4th or 5th paragraph it seemed. I didn't enjoy reading such graphic horror the first time, but then to be continuing to be reminded of it really made this a difficult book to stay with. The obvious corruption of the leadership added nothing to make me even try to enjoy it. I felt like I was reading a dark age story about the Spanish Inquisition rather than a post apocalyptic story.

This is the first book of a series, but I am not sure I'll be very interested in reading any further editions in the series. Just not my cup of tea!

I waited until I read all six before posting a review. I debated giving 4 stars as I did lose a bit of interest around book 4 or 5 but then I just k pat wanting to see what happen d to the characters. And most of your good books or tv shows always have a slower section where certain things need to happen in order for the ultimate conclusion to pull together.

I don't want to give ny spoilers so I'll simply say this series ultimately centers around around the village of Brighton and how it came to rise after the fall of civilization. It's interesting how when society falls, a rather medieval and more brutal society comes to be. A lot of it remind d me of current society and how some events can bring out the worst in some while others find a way to shine a light of hope. Some things might seem a bit unbelievable but really they are not when you think of so many events they have happened in our own world.

This series will have you championing characters and then leave you stunned when they fall. By the end of e series, I was pleasantly surprised by the turn of events and to see who survived sync who did not. Kudos to these to writers for surfing the edge of the good and evil that exists in us all if we were pushed to our limits.

So many books are written about characters with interesting stories. This book definitely falls into that category. There are several characters in this tale who definitely have interesting stories to tell.

Sadly, we never really get to see those stories. T.W. Piperbrook and Bobby Adair committed one of the biggest errors in writing I can remember running into in the last decade. They never decided on a focal character or a main plot line.

This story jumps from character to character and situation to situation. at times it seems to believe we should already know all about past events that helped create the Dystopian society we are reading about. Other times it seems to start opening up the tale of one of the characters, only to slam the box shut and jump to another character as soon as the next chapter starts.

It's a very disjointed way to tell a tale and that is what I remember most.

The proofreading is superb, and the story reads relatively smoothly. My issue was more that the lack of a clear narrative or plot to follow meant that I grew increasingly less interested in the words I was reading. There was a story there, but... It was closed off behind the lack of focus

The writing is not bad technically, but the whole thing is incredibly slow paced. It shouldn't take a whole novel to get through two and a half days where nothing of great significance in terms of plot development happens. Feels dragged out. Characters are not well developed, and their motivations seem out of step with the presented culture. Lots of side storylines that feel like setups for stuff in other books, and don't go anywhere in this book.

I really have an issue with books like this that seem to exist only as a setup for a series, and don't present a coherent story on their own. I understand leaving the reader wanting more, but giving so little that the reader doesn't care what happens defeats the purpose. Not even slightly tempted to try the rest of the series.